Real-Life “Squid Game”? — McKamey Manor

kaelyn
9 min readFeb 19, 2022

Not about Mr. Beast’s $456,000 prize, we are talking about a real LEGAL torture chamber.

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After watching the popular series — Netflix’s Squid Game (that took the entire world by storm), I was chatting with my friends and we wondered if such a game really exists in real life. And by that, I do not mean videos that youtubers had recreated based on this Korean Drama Series, but does this concept really exist in reality? Perhaps on the dark web? I got really curious about it and went to do some research on it, and I found something. Something similar to the dystopian world in Squid Game, something similar to the violence in the show, and it is ALL LEGAL.

Introducing: McKamey Manor

Mckamey Manor is branded as a haunted house, but many who have been there or those who have seen the clips of participants in the house viewed it more as a torture chamber. It was founded by Russ McKamey, a self-proclaimed haunt enthusiast, and created this attraction to give participants a haunting experience (both mentally and physically). So how does this “haunted house” work?

Participants have to sign a 40-page waiver, a background check, a drug test and even watch an almost 2-hour long documentary of past attempts in the haunted house. After which, the actual experience will last for 8–10 hours, where…

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